The Blood of the Nation 



Roundhead, the Puritan, the Pilgrim. 

 They swelled Cromwell's army, they 

 knelt at Marston Moor, they manned 

 the " Mayflower," and in each generation 

 they have fought for liberty in Eng- 

 land and in the United States. Studies 

 in genealogy show that all this is lit- 

 erally true. All the old families in 

 New England and Virginia trace their 

 lines back to nobility, and thence to 

 royalty. Almost every Anglo-Amer- 

 ican has, if he knew it, noble and royal 

 blood in his veins. The Massachusetts 

 farmer, whose fathers came from Plym- 

 outh in Devon, has as much of the 

 blood of the Plantagenets, of William 

 and of Alfred, as flows in any royal 

 veins in Europe. But his ancestral 

 line passes through the working and 

 fighting younger son, not through him 

 who was first born to the purple. The 

 persistence of the strong shows itself in 

 the prevalence of the leading qualities 



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